Radiator



(No Model.)

A J. BROWN, E. BROWN, Jr. 82; D. SHAY RADIATOR.

No. 439,471. Patented Oct. 28, 1890.

U WITNESSES:

ATTORNEYS.

NITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ARTHUR J. BROVN, EDVARD BROVN, JR, AND DENNIS SHAY, OF

.BELLEFONTE, PENNSYLVANIA.

RADIATOR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 439,471, dated October 28, 1890.

Application filed December 12, 1889. Serial No. 333,423. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, ARTHUR J. BROWN, EDWARD BRowN, J r., and DENNIS SHAY, of Bellefonte, in the county of Centre and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Radiators, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to steam and hotwater radiators built up in sections of a double-tubular circulating and return character; and it consists in a radiator of this description of noveland advantageous construction, including a male and female steampacked slip-joint between the sections, and a special construction of the sections and arrangement of their inlets and outlets, substantiallyas hereinafter described, and pointed out in the claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 represents a face elevation of a radiator embodying our invention. Figs. 2, 3, 4, and 5 are vertical sections of the consecutive sections of the radiator upon the line 10 'w, a: 00, y y, and .2 in Fig. 1, respectively. Fig. 6 is a plan view of the radiator, and Fig. 7 is a longitudinal section of the socket-joint between the radiatonsections.

The radiator is composed of any number of vertical cast-iron sections, consisting of two end sections A D and a series (here shown as two) of intermediate sections B C, all bolted together and arranged at suitable distances apart from one another, but having tubular connections with one another at or near their tops by nipples and sockets c f, or what is known as a socket-joint, formed of a male part c and female part f,with any suitable steam packing g within the slip-joint so formed. Such joint will be found superior and more convenient, generally, than the joints ordinarily used is connecting radiatorsections. The several sections are held together at their proper distances apart and the several joints c f made stea1n-tight or close by means of horizontal bolts 71, running through the sections near their upper and lower ends.

The several sections composing the radiator are each of a doubletube construction; but while the two end tubes A and D are of a continuous tubular construction throughout their length or height the intermediate sections B C are interrupted at their one or upper end by a diaphragm or partition 2', which gives them a return character or action.

Steam is admitted to the one end section A by an inlet it near the bottom on the one side of said section and passes up through both upright and continuous tubular portions of such section, and from thence out by an upper side aperture L and the first socket-joint cf, to the next section B through an upper side aperture Z on the one side of the partition 'L' in said section, thence down the one upright tubular portion of the section B, and up through the other upright tubular portion thereof to an upper outlet m upon the other side of said partition 1'. From this outlet on the steam passes by the next socket joint 6 f to and through an upper aperture m to the next section O upon one side of its partition i,thenoe down the one upright tubular portion of the next section C and up through the other upright tubular portion thereof, to and through an outlet n 011 the other side of said partition 6, through the next tubular socket e f, to and through an upper side aperture n in the last end section D, and down both. upright tubular portions of said section D to and through an escapeoutlet 0 in the lower end of such section. This circulation of the steam through the several sections is clearly indicated by arrows in the first five figures of the drawings. The inlet and outlet apertures for the steam in the several sections, it will be seen, are respectively on opposite sides of the sections and the tubular sockets c f on reverse sides, successively, of a vertical plane intersecting the radiator in direction of its width.

By the construction as described of the tubular sections of the radiator and inlets and outlets connecting the one section with the other, a most perfect circulation is 0btained through the upper portion of the radiator, and, in fact, throughout the whole radiator, effectually causing the cold air to be forced out before or by the heating circulat ing medium and quickly heating the radiator, and from the time the steam enters the first section at k till it leaves the last section by the outlet it has no inlet or outlet in the bottom portion of the radiator during its entire traverse, but has a free circulation or through the bottom portions of all the intertops, and having their circulating inlets and outlets wholly at their tops 011 opposite sides of said diaphragms, and tubular connections between the upper inlet and outlet apertures of the several sections, substantially as specified.

2. The combination of the double continuous tubular upright end sections A D, having inlet and outlet apertures 7c Z and n 0, the intermediate double-tubular sections 13 '0, divided bya diaphragm 11 at their tops and provided with upper inlet and outlet apertures m Z and m n on opposite sides of their diaphragms, the upper tubular socket-connections ef, having steam-packings g between the several sections and successively out of line or plane with one another, as described, and the bolts h, uniting the several radiatorsections together, essentially as shown and 45 described.

ARTHUR J. BROWN. EDWARD BROWN, JR. DENNIS SHAY. Witnesses:

W. R. CAMP,

B. F. JOHNSON. 

